Martin P. Blomberg

Martin Peter Frederik Blomberg ( born December 11, 1888 in Östervåla, † 1966 in Winter Park (Florida ) ) was an American engineer of Swedish origin. He was known for the development of the Union Pacific train sets M -10000 and M- 10001 and the bogies of diesel locomotives from EMD.

Blomberg grew up as the son of a teacher and pastor. He graduated from the Technical Institute in Örebro and went in 1910 to the University of Uppsala. During this time he was very active in sports and was intended for the 1912 Olympic Games. However, he emigrated to Canada in the same year. From 1912 to 1914 he worked in Trois- Rivières in a paper mill, by the way, he studied at technical drawing and mechanical design in a night school. From 1915 onwards he worked for the National Steel Car Corp.. in Hamilton. A year later he sailed with a canoe the 1600 km long Albany River to Hudson Bay.

In 1916 he went to the USA and took part in the U.S. Army in the First World War. After his return, he married Laura Van Buskirk. His son Richard Nelson Blomberg was born on 21 October 1924.

From 1925 to 1935 Blomberg worked for the Pullman Palace Car Company, where he was responsible for the design of the bogies and car bodies soon. Its exterior design for the 1934 delivered UP streamlined trains received three patents (U.S. Patent D100000, D100001 D100002 and ).

On 1 September 1935, he (from 1941 Electro-Motive Division of General Motors) started operations at the Electro-Motive Corporation. Again, he was in charge from the beginning for the construction of car bodies and bogies. In 1939 he developed the two-axle bogie for the new freight train diesel locomotive of the FT series. This bogie or derivatives thereof have been installed in over 15,000 locomotives from General Motors.

Blomberg reported a total of over 100 patents, of which 32 he developed during his time with EMD. In 1947, he was senior engineer after the chief engineer of EMD.

On 1 June 1949 he retired. He died in 1966 at the age of 78 years in his retirement home in Winter Park, Florida.

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  • Max Ephraim Jr.: Martin Blomberg, designer extraordinaire. In: Trains. 54 Jg, No. 10/94, Kalmbach Publishing, pp. 46-49, ISSN 0041-0934
  • Railway engineer
  • Swede
  • Born in 1888
  • Died in 1966
  • Man
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